He really shouldn’t though. He should clear out All-NBA spots for others, to mess with other teams’ cap/apron space.

For example, if Jalen Duren makes All-NBA, Detroit will have to pay him more. And that would give them less apron space.

And Detroit could very plausibly be a future Finals opponent to the Nuggets.

Every little edge matters, and Jokic is one of the few players in NBA history who is smart enough and unselfish enough to chase an edge like that.

Contract bonuses are also today if he gets the awards

He’s not going to pass up 10s of millions of dollars

he played on Orthodox Christmas multiple times iirc

He cares about the money that results from them, for sure.

Fact.

It is what it is.Its the only thing thats been counted for the past 80 years,that can be compared to players from the past.

Its a lot easier to remember he leads the league in assists than that the nuggets have best offense in history with him on court,that he leads in rim assists even as a center,cause he doesnt pass to a guy that usually gets most of his pts at the rim like guys who are PGs do,highest passer rating and stuff like that.

famously this only applies to Jokic of course

Sure, But I think you’d be hard-pressed to make an argument that the first person to ever lead in both assists and rebounds isn’t adding quite a bit of value 😅

No, it’s your heart rate.

Isn’t bpm just points scored - points given up?

absolutely not even close, its is calculated from box score stats weighted differently by each position.

https://www.basketball-reference.com/about/bpm2.html

As mentioned above: the coefficients vary by the position and offensive role the player plays. In other words, some statistics mean different things if the player plays point guard versus if the player is a center.

To do this, every player is assigned a standard position value and also an offensive “creation” position value. Both of these position spectrums vary between position 1 (PG & Creator) and position 5 (Center & Receiver). These position scales are calculated using regressions found in the appendix.

Assists are worth far more for a post player than for a point guard. Point guards handle the ball a lot and usually generate lower value assists. A center’s assists are usually very high value. In addition, post players that pass well are typically better defenders.

Once upon a time I thought the same thing 😞 I sympathize with you heavily over not realizing, because it honestly is needlessly confusing.

Edit: lol why the down votes? It’s goofy to name something “box plus minus” when we already have a “plus minus” stat, and they hardly have anything to do with each other.

It’s needlessly confusing 🤷‍♂️.

The horse died, had a funeral, was cremated and it’s ashes spread to the seas.

And they’re still beating it. 🤣

Lol this is why I hate advanced stat dudes.

True nerds would at least understand the advanced stat they are using before making comparisons.

That’s not what BPM is at all.

Brother atleast try to learn the stats you are using. BPM is nothing of the sort. What you are talking about is raw +/- and that is present is the basic boxscore (and something jokic isnt leading at all)

Bro what the fuck and you are the op lol

Have you ever looked at the BPM formula?

Westbrook had the best season ever according to BPM in 2017. He broke the formula and they needed to chang it. More than enough proof that there metrics are very fallible, require understanding and often times, arent that good.

I’d go even further, all basketball reference advanced stats are useless. They are boxscore only catch all numbers that dont use information that we now have, which wasnt available when they were create 20-15 years ago.

The only people who still use BPM, PER, VORP are people who are either clueless about advanced stats in 2026 or are purposedly pushing an agenda

This is like that meme with the people raising their hands for the one thing and looking sad when the guy says they can only have it if they agree with another thing

Hasn’t he been one of the biggest playoff risers stats wise?

Im pretty sure he was a few years ago at least

He should also get same level of teammates in playoffs.

I mean he basically has it during the regular season, playoffs less so because the nuggets somehow always have something going on with them, and a single player can’t carry a team on their back anymore

That’s really disingenuous to imply Jokic has had similar team success to LeBron in their first 10 seasons

Moses lead his team to a 12-1 overall record enroute to a title and FMVP. Falling one game short of the famous FO FO FO declaration, to which it was the greatest  title run, record wise, until the Lakers were 15-1. He also made 2 all-nba defensive teams to which Jokic is likely never to achieve. Not quite the same as Jokic’s statistically easiest title run of all time in terms of quality of opponent played.

Nah, you’re pretty spot on.

Some people seem to think it’s the “best player on the best team award” (or best player on top 2 seed award) instead of an individual one.

And don’t get me startet on voter fatigue. If you are allowed to vote for MVP vote for the one who is the actual most valuable player and don’t find excuses of all sorts like “but Bird ist the only one with 3 in a row” or “LeBron has only four” or whatnot. Don’t make stupidity a tradtion that is set in stone.